Thursday, April 26, 2001
According to my website statistics, my domain is more popular than I had thought. All Anime Music Videos is getting dozens of hits a day, and my own music videos are being viewed every day. That really makes me feel good. People like what I do. Or, at least, are mildly interested in it. Vhatever. When I went out for lunch today, I stopped by the bookstore to look up parenting magazines […]
Wednesday, April 25, 2001
Ugh. Just lost today’s diary entry, as the domain name was shuffled around. I’m glad it was, for reasons I’ll explain in the next paragraph, but it is annoying. Let’s see if I can reconstruct it, here…. The sysadmin who runs the server that this domain sits on e-mailed me the other day, letting me know that other-space.com, stun-software.com, and chriscarrepair.com are using about 1 GB […]
Tuesday, April 24, 2001
OK, so maybe I should be a little less definitive when I make statements such as “I don’t see Be, Inc. getting bought out any time soon.” Specifically, Be, Inc. is now actively looking for ways of getting bought out, or otherwise rescuing themselves from totally running aground. They still have six months’ worth of venture capital, of course, but still. :sigh: Well, if Be […]
Monday, April 23, 2001
Today is the first day of TV Turn-off Week. And while I get somewhat frustrated with some of the rhetoric used in it, their Zen TV Experiment is worth reading. I went back and added some content to diary entries of the last copule of days, just generally fleshing out areas that I hadn’t finished earlier. Other than that, I spent much of today fiddling with things (like adding a couple of reviews […]
Sunday, April 22, 2001
It’s a gorgeous day; 80 degrees and partly cloudy. An occasional breeze stirs the newly-growing leaves in the trees. I spent most of the day outside. We decided to skip church again this morning, and instead listened to an excellent tape of Dr. Norris from Fourth Presbyterian Church. Afterwards, I wandered the garden, then mowed the lawns and cleaned the house (or rather, the part that I have to clean). Then, it was off to AWANA. Only a few more […]
Saturday, April 21, 2001
Network Solutions sent me an e-mail a few days ago, informing me that I can now get domain names that end in .ws. Yippee. Who the heck wants a domain name ending in .ws? It doesn’t roll off the tongue, and everybody‘s going to ask what it stands for (“WebSite”). I’m not interested in grabbing www.other-space.ws. And why did they roll out .ws before, say, .web? Anyway. Saalon […]
Friday, April 20, 2001
Disney’s coming out with a Kiki’s Delivery Service DVD later this summer. Oh yeah. Finally, more Miyazaki on DVD (for those of you reading this entry many moons after it was written [Hi!], only two Miyazaki films have been released on DVD in America thus far: The Castle of Cagliostro and Princess Mononoke). I’ve started posting particularly cool anime art on my cubicle wall at work. First […]
Thursday, April 19, 2001
I’m learning something interesting about myself. I can multitask. This isn’t the interesting thing that I’m learning; I’ve known that I can multitask for awhile. I can carry on multiple online conversations simultaneously; I can read a book while I’m managing a bunch of donwloads; I can formulate a speech as I garden, while occasionally checking on drying paint. I’m learning that I shouldn’t multitask. When I multitask, I split up my concentration between […]
Wednesday, April 18, 2001
Well. After pleasant conversations with online friends last night, I stumbled into my bed, only to re-awaken at 3:00 a.m. Was there a noise? Had I had a bad dream? No, I just…surfaced from the lake of dreams. After puttering around a bit, I got on the computer and worked on Mozart until my Mom stumbled into my room at 5:00. At that point, I realized that I was fully awake, not in that “It’s a brisk Saturday morning […]
Tuesday, April 17, 2001
I’m going sort of crazy. I’ve got over 300 books catalogued in my virtual bookshelves now, and I’m only about two-thirds of the way through, and I’m trying to go through and add abstracts and reviews for them. And when you’re like me, and try to accurately represent every single book, it’s a mind-numbing job. Which, of course, it isn’t. Provided you look at it the right way, it isn’t, at least. I’m looking […]